Jewish%20thought for Eruvin 36:1

אוצר מה אוצר זה רחב מלמטה וקצר מלמעלה כדי לקבל את הפירות אף האשה רחבה מלמטה וקצרה מלמעלה כדי לקבל את הולד

of a storehouse. As a storehouse is [made] wide below and narrow above so that it may contain the produce,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Were its shape to be reversed the heavy weight of the stored produce would weigh down the walls. ,ubhcaua');">¹</span> so was [the womb of] a woman [made] wide below and narrow above so that it may contain the embryo.'

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